The Green Club supported the top candidate for the EU elections, Lena Schilling, on Tuesday. The reports of the past few days were discussed ‘intensively’ during a routine club meeting. But the next problem is already looming: a request from a married couple.
Everything is completely normal. The Green Parliamentary Club tried to classify the meeting with all MPs as routine. “The reporting on Lena Schilling was also discussed in detail and we exchanged intensive views. The Green Club remains united behind the Green Party’s top candidate,” said the official press statement for the meeting.
Internal doubts and an angry couple
None of the MPs dare to officially thwart the party line. However, in the background there are already representatives who consider Lena Schilling’s candidacy as a mistake.
Because there seems to be no end to the fuss surrounding the green EU top candidate. The couple Sebastian and Veronika Bohrn Mena, who see themselves as victims of Schilling, now want to receive an apology from the young Green party through a civil lawsuit.
As reported, she allegedly raised suspicions of domestic violence out of “concern for her friend.” Schilling signed a cease and desist agreement to resolve the issue. But the Bohrn Menas sent the comparison to the media, causing a media avalanche.
What is private, what is political?
The debate about the morality of a young politician is so widespread that Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen also commented on the allegations. “As a young person you don’t make mistakes, even if you have made one in the first place,” he said in an Ö1 interview on Tuesday. In any case, he “certainly made something of it”. Van der Bellen was able to avoid dragging his private life into election campaigns: “Politics is one thing, and private life is another.”
“We are not indifferent,” said Secretary General Olga Voglauer after the club meeting, which was held on Tuesday as usual before the plenary days, “when an attempt is made to chase a young woman around the arena.” She described the accusations as “rumors, allegations and rumors” and said there was nothing solid against her continuing to support Schilling.
The Greens want to keep working
“What is happening here is humanly incomprehensible (…), I wouldn’t wish that on anyone,” she defended Schilling. Voglauer emphasized that we are currently in the middle of the election campaign, and indeed an election campaign of “the most disgusting kind”, but it will continue with a broad team behind Schilling.
Source: Krone
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